Amazon launches the Kindle Fire with the major attack in the world tablet market. There is a direct competitor like Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 inches and BlackBerry Playbook and also the undisputed top dog of the Apple iPad.
The Kindle Fire from Amazon was deliberately furnished without additional dispensable functions in order to offer a low price and its focus can be directed to other applications. Thus, the Tablet, for example, no camera and no microphone. Amazon has also developed an innovative new browser called Silk browser for its first tablet, and it can sit up the technology world with the cloud-accelerated browsers.
All facts on Kindle Fire
Price: The Kindle Fire (which will initially appear in the U.S) will come there for just 199 dollars in Amazon stores. So far, there is no reference to a price offer for Germany. Amazon should take over but the American pricing for the European market. It will be cheaper than many tablets available on the market today.
Release Date: The Kindle Fire released on 15 November 2011 for the USA market. The Fire tablet can be pre-ordered in the United States. Theoretically, you could order the Kindle Fire from the USA, but many functionalities such as the access to the Amazon Appstore or the Apps Pandora and Netflix were not available here.
Display: The size LCD-screen of the Fire tablet is 7 inches. This Kindle Fire can reproduce 16 million colors and are made from "Gorilla-Glass". Gorilla-Glass type is 30 times harder than plastic, and it has proven particularly resistant to daily wear, breakage and scratches. The display also used the IPS technology (In-Plane Switching), which improves the contrast that dependence of the viewing angle. Specifically, this means a flicker, distortion-free, high-contrast, sharp images even in extreme light. Another detail of the display, are 169 pixels per inch - more than the iPad 2 tablet, which have 132 ppi. There was rumors that the tablet will have a size of 10 inches. Should the Fire tablet prove a success, it lies in the realm of the possibility that in 2012, a 10 inches version is released.
Weight: The weighs for The Amazon Fire is about 413 gr: "It's small and light enough to hold it with one hand, and also it can take anywhere you want."
Processor: the Amazon has a seemingly used as a processor on ARM-based Texas Instruments dual core OMAP CPU. However, this rumor has not yet been officially confirmed.
User interface: The new Kindle Fire tablet will have installed a specially made of the Amazon-version, the Google Android operating system. It is not the Android Honeycomb 3.0 version, but the earlier 2.x version. As you'd expect from Android, the Fire will offer the multi-tasking OS, so it can run for multiple programs simultaneously. The center of the operating system is storage space more than the Amazon Cloud and the Amazon Cloud player. In the upper area of the display will be displayed symbol of music, videos, books, documents, apps and browsers. With the search bar to the Internet, the Amazon online store and the tablet itself can be searched. Below is the summary of the most-used books, videos and magazines. This is displayed in Cover Flow styles.
Apps: The browser was organized by Amazon Silk, and it uses the Amazon's cloud-computing system. This means that large parts of the procedures and processes are generated through the cloud system, and then the device processor is protected. The Silk feature will also be able to detect browsing patterns and pages you have visited most often, and will load it in the background, the Fire tablet will moreover provide an optimized shopping app that will display simplified and customized pages. It will make your shopping experience easier than on Amazon's homepage itself. Other existing apps are Twitter and Facebook feature, so far only in the United States that can use the useful apps from Pandora and Netflix.
Connectivity and space: The new Kindle Fire will have Wi-Fi connection but no 3G network. Furthermore, the Fire tablet is 8 GB of hard-drive space only. All applications and media are stored in the cloud system, and it can be accessed from there. The Amazon Cloud data space will be available for free to every Kindle Fire user.
Whispersync: The new Amazon Whispersync technology will be fully integrated on this Kindle Fire tablet. It means, all of media, such as the e-books that we read through the device can be transferred to another Fire device, including the TV sets. This also applies to the Movie and TV shows. The Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos said: "The customers love Whispersync, so we thought about how we could expand the range and furthermore offer it now for the movies and TV shows." So with this Kindle tablet, we can watch a movie on the tablet and finish it at home on TV.
Music, videos and books: Theoretically, the first Amazon Tablet could access the entire Amazon offers. This also applies to MP3's and video streaming about 100,000 movies and TV shows, 17 million songs. All Kindle books and in addition hundreds of magazines and newspapers. Not only, that, you can enjoy over 100 exclusive comics such as "Watchmen" (not yet available as a digital version), "Superman: Earth One," "Batman: Arkham City," or "Secret Origin." Unfortunately, this offer is only for the USA market. The time will tell how many partners can offer Amazon tablet in Germany or whether the U.S.
Apps: Amazon offers the tablet comes with the Amazon Android App Store to access the most popular Android-apps and games such as "Plants vs. Zombies," "Angry Birds," or "Cut the Rope." All these apps have been tested for the Kindle Fire and usually offered as a free exclusive offer.
Amazon Prime: For the acquisition of the Amazon Kindle Fire, you can get one months free to try out the Amazon Prime. The Amazon Prime offers in Germany. Free delivery for the ordered items in the next day with no minimum order value.
Future: It is already predicted by industry experts. The Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet will give a huge success. Amazon should expand its Fire-2012 series and bring out another bigger and better (but probably too expensive) tablet with a camera and microphone.
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